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...years and in a number of situations, Mr. Gingrich showed disregard and lack of respect for the standards of conduct that applied to his activities." The report of the ethics committee adopted by the House today specifically cited Gingrich's failure to get proper legal advice before using tax-exempt funds for political purposes, and for providing inaccurate information in response to a direct request from the committee. The two-year investigation was marked by fierce partisanship in the House as a whole, as well as a quiet bipartisan effort in the subcommittee as it evaluated thousands of pages...
...scores of ethical charges hurled at Gingrich over the past two years, one worried his allies the most. It was the suggestion that he may have lied to the House ethics committee about the college course he taught and financed through a tax-exempt foundation. Gingrich initially professed not to know what the committee was hinting at when it questioned whether the Speaker had provided "accurate, reliable and complete information." And in an interview with TIME shortly before the election, he noted, "My attorney, who by the way has won three Supreme Court cases, does not have a clue what...
...boasted that his course, a lecture series carried on cable TV, would produce "200,000 committed activists nationwide before we're through.") Still, the subcommittee last week stopped short of saying the Speaker had broken tax laws by allowing politics to become tangled with the work of a tax-exempt nonprofit group. Instead, it faulted Gingrich for not taking "appropriate steps" to assure that he was complying with the law. Now it is up to the full committee--and perhaps ultimately the entire House--to determine what penalties, if any, he should suffer...
Millions of poor mothers are soon going to be faced with the same worry. Under the new federal welfare law, even recipients with very young children are required to find work (although states may exempt a single parent caring for a child under one year old). According to the Children's Defense Fund, there are now about 9.75 million children on welfare, about 4.5 million of them under five. That translates into an enormous new demand for day care and raises concerns about the quality of that care...
...welfare recipients based on their income and the cost of the care they choose, and created a new category called "provisional certified care." This care, to be provided by any adult who passes a criminal background check, in any home meeting basic health and safety requirements, would be exempt from most of the regulations aimed at ensuring quality in Wisconsin's licensed day-care centers--and so presumably would be much cheaper...